Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the case, that mass surveillance is a violation of rights.
Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.
The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.
I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.
What we have now in America is a surveillance society.
It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.
Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute that surveillance, and finally, removing any accountable judicial oversight, creates the opportunity for unprecedented influence over our system of government.
I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.
Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U. S. citizens.
Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillancenot; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.
I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.
Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.
A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.